1. For a discussion of other popular nineteenth-century entertainments see Hugh Cunningham, Leisure and the Industrial Revolution c. 1780–1880 (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1980). For a study of ethnographic spectacles, see
2. Bernth Lindfors (ed.), Africans on Stage: Studies in Ethnological Show Business (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999). For a study of panoramas, see
3. Ralph Hyde, Panoramania: The Art and Entertainment of the All-Embracing View (London: Trefoil Publications 1988).
4. Andrew Hobbs, ‘When the Provincial Press was the National Press (c.1836–c.1900)’, The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies, Series 2 5:1 (2009), pp.16–43.
5. For a discussion of the issues surrounding correspondence to magazines and newspapers in the nineteenth century, see Patricia Anderson, The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991), p.139.